Author: Charles Milton Ling
Date: 11:37:33 10/25/00
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On October 25, 2000 at 13:50:29, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: >On October 25, 2000 at 12:44:25, Charles Milton Ling wrote: > >>Aren't we talking about World Championships here (however defined)? (I.e. not >>stages leading to the final.) >>Karpov-Korchnoi cannot have been 1974, it must have been either 1975 or 1978. >>I am frankly amazed that all you people with those gigantic databases have not >>found an answer yet. (For me, it would entail looking up a lot of things in a >>lot of books and, yes, I am too lazy.) >> >>Charley > It _was_ 1974,that match was played to select Fischer's challenger. > As Fischer refused to play the winner [Karpov],the Russian GM was > declared by FIDE the new world Champion in 1975.[At that time FIDE's > president was the former titleholder(1935-1937)Max Euwe,from the > Netherlands]. JAFM [ To find out the shortest decisive game in the > World Championships I have neither the means nor the interest. ] Silly me. Of course you are right, my apologies. 1978 or 1981 would have been correct. Charley
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